‖ beau-monde
(bomɔ̃d, bəʊˈmɒnd)
[a. F. beau monde, i.e. fine world.]
The fashionable world, ‘society.’
| 1714 Pope Rape Lock v. 133 This the beau monde shall from the Mall survey. 1756 Nugent Gr. Tour. I. 116 The beau-monde used to go in masquerade about the streets. 1823 Byron Juan xiv. xx, Of the beau monde a part potential. |